Charles toopb



(No Model.) l

' C. TOOPE.

Refrigerator,

Patented De. 14,1880.

".PETERS. FHOWUTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D I;

UNTTED STATES FATENT @Trice CHARLES TOOPE, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,591, dated December 1.4, 1880.

Application filed October 21, 1880.

To all 'LL-hom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES TOOPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements iu Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

vrThis invention relates to refrigerators for general uses; and itconsists in the combination of an ice-chamber and a provision-chamber located next to each other, and an air-purifying chamber having a perforated inner wall facing both the icechamber and the provisionchamber, so that a current of air circulates from the ice-chamber into and through the purifying-chamber to the provision-chamber. The ice-chamber and provision-chamber are divided from each other by a pan, the inner wall of the purifying-chamber being perforated both above and below such pan. This invention is illustrated in the accompanying' drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a vertical central section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in the line .fr x, Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the ice-chamber, B the provision-chamber, and C the air-purifying chamber. Access is had to the chambers A B through suitable opeuin gs provided with doors D and E, respectively, and the air-purifying chamber C is iilled'with a composition adapted to absorb odor and moisture-ras, for example, a mixture of charcoal and boraX.

The letter F designates the inner wall of the air-purifying chamber C, which is also the inner wall of th/e refrigerator, and G the pan dividing the interior of the refrigerator into the ice-chamber A and provisioirchamber B, the first named being above and the-other below it. Said inner wall, F, of th air-puri* fying chamber is perforated both above and below the pan G, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and the pan is preferably `bent or curved downwardly at its edges, Where it is secured to the perforated wall, as at I, in order to increase the area of such wall which is exposed to the icechamber. Water escapes from the pan G by a drip-pipe, H.

The air, which is admitted to and becomes cooled inthe ice-chamber A, passes into the (No model.)

purifying-chamber C through the perforations above the pan G, and thence into the provision-chamber B through the perforations be low the pan, as indicated by arrows in Fig. 1, in which circulation thereof it is freed of impurities,rso as to enter the provision-chamber in a pure state.

The outer wall of the air-purifying chamber, constituting also the outer wall of the refrigerator, is made of wood, and is lined with felt or other non-conducting material.

It should be remarked that the chambers A B may be divided from each other by a vertical partition, but I prefer the arrangement shown.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a refrigerator, of an ice-chamber and a provision-chamber, arranged adjacent to each other, with an airpurifying chamber having a foraminous inner wall, the said purifyingchamber containing a filling which absorbs moisture and odor from the air during its passage from the ice to the provision chamber, substantially as described.

2. In a refrigerator, an air-purifying chamber having an inner perforated wall facing both the ice-chamber and the provisiolrchainr ber, said air-purifying chamber' containing a composition filling for depriving the air of moisture and odor duringits passage from the ice-chamber to the provisionchamber, sub-4 stantially' as described.

3. The combination, in a refrigerator, of an outer casing, an inner foraminous wall, an interveningfilling ofair-purifyin g substance, and an upper ice-chamber and a lower provisionchamber divided by a pan which extends from wall to wall of the purifying-chamber, substantiall y as shown and described,whereby the air is forced to circulate through the air-purifying substance in its passage from the icechamber to the provision-chamber, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto lset my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

CHARLES TOOPlE. lL. s]

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KAsrENHUBER. 

